According to Chinese news sources, a vehicle built by Chinese carmaker Chery but badged as a
Dodge and sold by Chrysler, LLC will soon be introduced in Mexico. The car is the first vehicle produced under a deal arranged by former Chrysler president Tom LaSorda and Chery, one which had been rumored to be in trouble.
Chery is the Chinese company which produced two of the vehicles that recently failed to pass safety tests in Europe and Russia, crumpling, according to one report, like a (..
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Shanghai GM will be putting a hybrid version of their Buick LaCrosse on the market next year, prior to the Olympic games to be held in Bejing, according to the Xinhua News Agency of China.
According to GM’s information, the vehicle will be based on the
Saturn Aura Green Line’s hybrid engine, a 2.4 liter Ecotec which, in the
Saturn, increases fuel economy about 25%.
Toyota is currently the only manufacturer with a hybrid on the Chinese market, though
Honda has announced (
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Buick will expand its international reach following a four-year agreement signed today by General Motors and Shanghai GM to export up to 25,000 of the brand’s hot-selling Enclave luxury crossover to China beginning in the second half of 2008.
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Nanjing Auto bought the rights to the MG name, and the company, in 2005. Since then, they have invested $362 million in a new plant and in equipment in Nanjing, China.
Next month, Nanjing will introduce the result of these efforts, the MG-7, in China. The car is a 1.8 liter turbocharged base car starting at $22,578, and a 2.5 liter V-6 version starting at $39,842 in China. To this point, plans for export, if any, have not been announced.
The company will also produce the MG (...)
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It isn’t China.
It’s Africa.
And the Chinese are there first.
While some American and Western European auto manufacturers have been focusing on China and, to a lesser extent, India and Malaysia as emerging industrialized nations with rapidly growing appetites for automobiles, the new Chinese auto manufacturers, such as Chery, are focusing on Africa as the next big market.
In the past, the supply of autos to Africa has come mostly from exports of used (...)
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After reports that both
BMW and Daimler are intending to sue to prevent distribution of Chinese knock-offs of, respectively, the
BMW X5 and the
SmartForTwo manufactured by Daimler, the Chinese manufacturer who is doing the dirty work has proclaimed its innocence.
According to a public relations department statement from Shuanghaun Auto, the Chinese manufacturer, it’s Noble and CEO models are not copies of the German manufacturer’s products. “We don’t think our autos (.
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As China attempts to become an industrial power, it is getting a indelible reputation for building shoddy, dangerous products and engaging in outright fraudulent business practices, without the slightest thought to the dangers created. First it was poisonous pet food. Then it was toothpaste made with, in essence, antifreeze (ethylene glycol). Then toys painted with lead paint. It has become increasing clear that the words “Made in China” ought to be regarded as a warning label, not a (...)
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As all United States automakers (even the vaunted Toyota) decelerate their predictions for total sale in the U.S. for 2007 to barely over 16 million,
General Motors announced that it expected to sell a million vehicles in China this year.
That not only makes China the second biggest market for GM, but it makes it the market in which the growth is located. From China, GM can reach out to the rest of Indochina, including Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, and India. (...)
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Ford and General Motors reported sales declines in July, but they were not alone.
Toyota sales in both the U.S. and Japan were down, too.
In fact, Toyota’s Japanese market sales for the first six months of the year were down a full ten percent from a year earlier. That’s not good news for Toyota, which introduced seven new models in the home market in that period. The sales decline is being attributed to an aging population in Japan, but it has also lead t (...)
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